The Lamponidae are a spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 family with about 200 described species in 23 genera.

Distribution

Species from this family are generally endemic

Endemic (ecology)

Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, all species of lemur are endemic to the...

 to Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, with the genus Centrocalia endemic to New Caledonia

New Caledonia

New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

, and two Lampona species (L. cylindrata, L. murina) also occurring in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. Lampona papua is endemic to New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

, where two otherwise Australian species (Centrothele mutica, Lamponova wau) also occur.

Genera

The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.

• Centrothelinae Platnick, 2000
• Asadipus Simon, 1897 (Australia)
• Bigenditia Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Centrocalia Platnick, 2000 (New Caledonia)
• Centroina Platnick, 2002 (Australia)
• Centrothele L. Koch, 1873 (Australia)
• Centsymplia Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Graycassis Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Longepi Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Notsodipus Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Prionosternum Dunn, 1951 (Australia)
• Queenvic Platnick, 2000 (Australia)

• Lamponinae Simon, 1893
• Lampona
  Lampona
  Lampona is a genus of spiders in the family Lamponidae and native to Australia and New Guinea. At least two species have a whitish tip to the abdomen and are known as white-tailed spiders. Both have been introduced to New Zealand...
  
  Thorell, 1869 (Australia)
• Lamponata Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Lamponega Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Lamponella Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Lamponicta Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Lamponina Strand, 1913 (Australia)
• Lamponoides Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Lamponova Platnick, 2000 (Australia, New Zealand)
• Lamponusa Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Platylampona Platnick, 2004 (Australia)

• Pseudolamponinae Platnick, 2000
• Paralampona Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
• Pseudolampona Platnick, 2000 (Australia)

Further reading

• Platnick, N.I. (2004). On a Third Group of Flattened Ground Spiders from Australia (Araneae, Lamponidae). American Museum Novitates 3462. PDF (Platylampona)

External links

• Picture of Lampona cylindrata